The Colorado Obituary Project is a statewide index of approximately 50,000 non-Denver obituaries mostly from the 1970s through 1990. Researchers may request a copy of the full text obituary through the Western History and Genealogy Department.

Five views of the Methodist parsonages in Altman, Colorado, include; upper left corner image: the first parsonage located between Altman and Independence. A small lean-to shack with an open entry door and a four pane window. Upper right image: a...

View of Porcupine Butte from the north, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, here Native American Lakota Sioux encountered a column of the Seventh Cavalry and were ordered to a camp on Wounded Knee Creek the night before the massacre.

View of a Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company (Rock Island) freight train led by Baldwin Diesel Road-Switcher 1257 near Sky Ranch Airport in Adams County, Colorado. The consist has boxcars and a tanker car.

View of a Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company (Rock Island) freight train led by three Baldwin Diesel Road-Switchers, 1268, 1276 and 128? near Sky Ranch Airport in Adams County, Colorado. The consist has boxcars, stock cars, and a...

Hand colored sitting studio portrait of a Native American (Chippewa) man, identified as Meshawkekeshick (Sky down to the Earth). He has a blanket around his waist, a long sleeved shirt, and plumage in his hair.

Front view of a Native American Sioux war bonnet made by Scout Comes from Sky of Rosebud, South Dakota. The bonnet is made of chicken feathers dyed yellow, eagle feathers, white down, beadwork and red flannel.

Back view of a Native American Sioux war bonnet made by Scout Comes from Sky of Rosebud, South Dakota. The bonnet is made of chicken feathers dyed yellow, eagle feathers, white down, beadwork and red flannel.

Newsletter produced by the Central Presbyterian Church in Denver, Colorado. Included in newsletter is a sermon by different religious leaders within the church, list of new members and events of different church societies.

Two poems written by East High School student Josephine Spalding. Spalding was a Cellist with Denver Civic Symphony Orchestra who wrote and published poetry at the age of 13. Spalding died at the age of 16 while attending East High.

A Baltimore and Ohio locomotive with tanker cars is stopped at the railroad depot in Bridgeport (Belmont County), Ohio. Signs on the station reads: "Bridgeport" and "Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Freight & Passenger Station." A truck is parked beside...

Mr. Chappel is sitting for a studio portrait in Silver Plume, Colorado. He is wearing a dark jacket, buttoned at the top, and a bow tie over a white shirt. There is a chain hooked into the button on his vest which disappears under his coat. It may...

View of the Moffat Filter Plant in Lakewood (Jefferson County), Colorado. The building is a three story Art Deco Style structure embellished with decorative terra cotta tiles. Cars are parked nearby; strato cumulus clouds span the sky.

Two buildings sit next to a two-track road on a hill in Lower Fulford, Colorado; one is a log gable-roofed building with a dormer, double-hung windows, and a paneled door, and the other is a weathered false front log building with a sagging roof....

Book created by Retired Reverend Monsignor Hugh L. McMenamin, LLD. for the Diamond Jubilee of the Cathedral Parish of Denver, Colorado. It covers the years of 1860 to 1935. Included in the book are sections dedicated to: Bishop Machebeuf, a...

Men in snowshoes carry climbing ropes and backpacks, and walk on a narrow, snowy ridge on a mountain in Alaska. One man leans against the weight of a sleigh laden with supplies, near the edge of a cliff. Another man on his stomach reaches for a...

The town of Aspen, Colorado, from Smuggler Mountain, is visible in the foregound at the base of Aspen Mountain. The snow-covered town is in the valley below. Aspen Mountain is covered with snow and trees; ski runs cut between the trees. Highland...

Floodlights illuminate the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado. Stone walls meet at a square corner tower, topped by a faceted guard house with a chain link railing. Bare trees line the street, on which are parked 30's and 40's sedans and...

View of the dolphin fountain at the Sullivan Memorial Gateway at the Colfax Avenue entrance to the City Park Esplanade in the City Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The gateway has ornate pylons with columns; cumulus clouds fill the sky.

Eastern view from Garden of the Gods, near Manitou Springs, Colorado. Sheer cliffs of sandstone are in the foreground, and the town of Colorado Springs is partially visible in the distance. In the background, the vast prairies meet the sky.

An open porch with Ionic columns and a balustrade surrounds a frame residence in Breckenridge, Colorado, and shelters a bay window in the near end. A wreath is on the wall next to it, and a door on the other side is decorated with pine branches....